internet explorers club | with great internet comes great responsibility

What this Supreme Court season has taught us (besides that we all need Notorious RBG shirts) is that the Running of the Interns is a real thing. Also, it turns out Justice Kagan is a huge nerd, because she filled her brief (relating to a Marvel suit) with quotes from Spider-Man

Semi-long reads, post-Charleston: Brit Bennett, White Terrorism Is as Old as America. Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the origins of the Confederate flag: What This Cruel War Was Over. Anthea Butler, Shooters of color are called ‘terrorists’ and ‘thugs.’ Why are white shooters called ‘mentally ill’? and Tony Horowitz, How The South Lost The War But Won The Narrative. Further reading can be found in the #CharlestonSyllabus, which is a great resource for classrooms, but also as a jumping-off point.

Lesser news from around the web:

• The Toast did an interview with a linguist to talk about how we write sarcasm on the Internet and ranks portraits of St. Sebastian "in ascending order of sexiness and descending order of actual martyring."
• The woman who designed the pattern on paper cups everywhere in the 90s (aka "Solo Jazz") has been found and interviewed!
• This is a 15 minute long video about cutting open a wheel of Parmesan cheese, and in the words of a friend, "what I like about this video is that it pays me the respect of assuming that one day I too will own a giant cheese, and when I do I’m going to need to know how to open it."

Etcetera: Two self-driving cars avoid an accident. Hot dogs around the world.

—Emily